Summary
Carlos Diez is an Executive Architect with nearly 30 years of hands-on IT experience and 14 years in senior roles, known for turning ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable systems across IoT, embedded, cloud, and high-volume transactional platforms. He blends practical, no-nonsense engineering with strategic leadership—building standards, toolchains, and blueprints that enable dozens of agile teams to ship resilient microservices, APIs, and PaaS solutions. A polyglot in both languages (English, German, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese) and code (Go, Rust, Swift, C#, C/C++, Java), he moves seamlessly from edge hardware and networking to AWS/Azure/GCP production deployments. Past roles range from founding startups and delivering on-prem datacentres to shaping cloud centers of excellence at Deutsche Telekom, with measurable security and operational improvements (e.g., raising M365 security readiness from 20% to 90%). He is equally comfortable diving into low-level performance optimizations and developer enablement, and keeps curiosity alive through side projects he now shares with his kids. Based in Frankfurt, he combines deep systems craftsmanship with a talent for simplifying complexity into pragmatic, business-driven solutions.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Strategy, Specialist Strategy at IESE Business School
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at The Open University
Computer Science Physics, Computer Science Physics at North Lincolnshire College
English, Catalan, German, Portuguese, Spanish